Chapter 6

"Jue... Jue... Juege... Just now... just now..." Wang Tanzhi stammered, his fear level rising once again. Due to the accumulation of fear, even after calming down a few seconds later, his fear level did not return to the lowest range but remained at around 15%.

Feng Jue's expression was unchanged, and he interrupted with a steady tone, "Based on my reasoning, we now have two options."

"W-What... what?" Wang Tanzhi, who could now turn two words into four.

"The first option is for you to take this small knife, charge forward, and slash at anything you encounter after turning the corner," Feng Jue replied. "I'll cover you from behind."

"I choose the second option." Wang Tanzhi's response became fluent all of a sudden, even before he heard what the second option was.

"Actually, I also prefer the second option." Feng Jue walked to the front of Wang Tanzhi, stood in front of the first door on the right without any tension, and turned the doorknob.

Everyone knows that in horror games, doors are always a scary point. No one knows what will be seen after opening the door. Moreover, there is the classic malicious design of "door-killing," which means the danger faced at the moment of opening the door is the same as chasing after a corner.

In such a moment, most people would cautiously extend their arms to push the door, lower their bodies, keep as far away from the door as possible, and be ready to run at any time. But Feng Jue's actions at this moment were like someone rushing to the toilet driven by the urge to urinate. He quickly walked forward, leaned forward, and pushed the door open.

The room was dark, and the light from the corridor shone in, revealing a terrifying scene.

It was a ten-square-meter ward. The cabinet in the corner was overturned, as was the trash can. Many items were scattered on the ground, most of which appeared to be useless garbage, such as rags, crumpled paper, broken flower pots, dirty disinfection cotton, and shattered glass medicine bottles. The bed sheets were torn, and the entire room was filled with the smell of blood. The areas illuminated by the light were almost entirely covered in bloodstains.

"Training mode becomes an invisible option when players reach level five. Clearly, this mode is designed for new players, allowing them to steadily level up to five." Feng Jue said as he walked to the cabinet, turned it around, and searched through the remaining items inside. "Those 'high-level players' probably play the training mode only once after completing the tutorial, or they might skip it altogether and directly enter the single-player survival mode. Because these players would have read the game instructions beforehand, they know that the rewards from this experience-only mode are far less than those from the official survival mode."

Feng Jue found an unopened syringe in the cabinet, glanced at its attributes, and put it directly into his inventory. "From the reward perspective, the training mode is even worse than the tutorial. Therefore, I believe its completion difficulty is similar to the tutorial. As long as players don't get scared and disconnect, they can pass without solving puzzles." He then bent down and sniffed the broken medicine bottle. "Actually, we can completely skip exploring these doors and continue chasing the black shadow. I think it will take no more than twenty minutes, with a few battles that might cost us survival points, to complete this script."

"Why did you come in then?" Wang Tanzhi asked.

"I said there were two options, and you chose the second one without even listening." Feng Jue unfolded the crumpled paper on the ground, one by one, and examined them under the light. "The second option is to solve puzzles."

"Hey... didn't you just say..."

"I said you can pass without solving puzzles, but I didn't say there were no puzzles to solve." Feng Jue continued, "However, even if we solve the puzzles, we won't get any skill points." He continued examining the papers, his expression unchanged. "But solving puzzles has at least one benefit: it can reduce the difficulty of passing. Simply put... using intelligence to reduce the physical effort required." He picked out a piece of paper and handed it to Wang Tanzhi, saying, "Take a look at this."

"This is..." Wang Tanzhi took the paper and asked after a few seconds, "A medical record?"

【Name: Medical Record of Unknown Identity】

【Type: Plot-related】

【Quality: Common】

【Function: Unknown】

【Can it be taken out of the script: No】

【Note: This paper has multiple sections obscured by blood.】

"This is your field." Feng Jue said, waving the remaining stack of papers in his hand. "I'll look through this stack."

Wang Tanzhi glanced at it and felt his scalp tingle. The top paper in Feng Jue's hand had a strange human face drawn on it.

The two of them moved to a brighter part of the corridor and looked for about three to four minutes. Wang Tanzhi read very carefully because many parts of the medical record were obscured by blood, and he had to guess as he read. Feng Jue, on the other hand, skimmed through the papers quickly, one after another. He was a reading enthusiast, read everything quickly, and his memory, understanding, and reasoning were very efficient. Moreover, the content on the papers didn't scare him, so to him, it was like looking at illustrations in a regular magazine.

"Have you finished reading?" Feng Jue asked first.

Wang Tanzhi's eyes were still on the medical record. He thought for a moment and replied, "This is a male, twelve years old... still a child."

Feng Jue stroked his chin. "Oh... a Young Pioneer." No one knew how his mind worked...

"Um... leukemia, hospitalized for a long time, but..." Wang Tanzhi put down the medical record. "From the medical record, it seems he doesn't have much time left..." He looked up, his eyes moving to the end of the corridor. "He must have turned into a ghost now..."

Feng Jue said, "Not necessarily. There are three doors here. We only know that the first room might be the boy's ward, but we can't be sure if the shadow we saw earlier is him." He handed the stack of papers to Wang Tanzhi. "You don't need to read them in detail, just look at the attributes." After a second, he added, "These papers have six different faces drawn on them, and each paper has a number in one corner."

【Name: Sketch of Human Faces * 6】

【Type: Plot-related】

【Quality: Common】

【Function: Unknown】

【Can it be taken out of the script: No】

【Note: These drawings are clearly by the same person. This item can be split or stacked, and when stacked, it is considered one item.】

"I'm getting more confused..." Wang Tanzhi said.

Feng Jue nodded. "That's normal; the clues for solving the puzzle are clearly insufficient." He then stepped towards the second room. "Additionally, I have a hypothesis, which is also why I hope to solve the puzzle before passing." He pushed open the second door and said, "I believe we can find at least one piece of formal equipment in these three wards."